We’ve continued to work in the StoryBox. Last night I got to be a spectactor and had an interesting experience. My character didn’t change throughout the experience, and perhaps I didn’t learn to accept or give offers, but the interactors are trained to deal with those who aren’t improv actors and so from my standpoint the experience was fairly smooth, even if I wasn’t often really into it and acting (certainly not methodically). I was at least trying to be in character, and that gave me some hint of a dramatic experience that I wouldn’t have otherwise had. Brian Megerko had an experiment run in the StoryBox where he asked an improv actor to vocalize her thoughts (non-performatively) while acting. He also played as a spectactor, portraying, as it turned out, a singer who was rising to fame. Another idea generated from conference attendees ran in the StoryBox during the day.

I also went to a very interesting short improv workshop by John Jannone yesterday. This morning, Rudy McDaniel Telep gave an interactive fiction workshop in which we did speed-IF like designs for games, based on objects they brought and provided us. Next up is another session of work with interactors and StoryBox.